Why 'Jonathan' can not be split into syllables?

[Peng Yu]

Hi, The following example shows that 'Jonathan' can not be split into
syllables. I think that it should be split as Jon-a-than. Does anybody
know why it can not be split? Thanks.

$ cat main.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
# vim: set noexpandtab tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=-1 fileencoding=utf-8:

import hyphen
h_en = hyphen.Hyphenator('en_US')
print h_en.syllables(u'Jonathan')

$ ./main.py
[u'Jonathan']

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Regards,
Peng

[Dr. Leo]

I guess the dictionary has it that names do not hyphenate in english.

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